Aug 11 2008
Additional notes for today's show
As mentioned above, the audio for this show is available in the archive.
Co-host is Coryon Redd of batteries4less.com, email address: coryon at gmail.com.
He is teaching a class on web site design aimed to get a high listing on Google.
To be held on Wed 7pm to 9:30pm at Sierra College (Grass Valley campus) room L101.
To register for the class call 530-274-8455. You can register by Wed at 5pm
Sponsored by the Nevada County Economic Resource Council, ncerc.org 530-274-8455
Keep checking back as there may be more classes if interest continues.
Find out where to recycle batteries in your local area.
rbrc.org
Free resources for the web designer…
Wordtracker on Google to find the best keywords to use on your web site.
How to use Wordtracker here.
Use social sites (Facebook or Myspace) to spread the word about your business.
seo-browser.com shows what, on a web page, a search engine crawler sees.
To find out who links to you, how many links are there to you, etc:
www.google.com/webmasters/
Google Analytics helps you determine who's coming to your site; what they
searched for to get there, etc.
www.google.com/analytics/
Use Google Local Business Center to find out how to customize the way your business search results are displayed in a Google search.
https://www.google.com/local/add/
Google Alerts is an electronic news clipping service to keep track of trends in your business sector. Go to news.google.com, create an alert & link it to your Google account.
On some email systems (e.g. gmail.com) one can use a period, to the left of @ sign; in the email.
Steven Krug's "Don't Make Me Think" book is recommended to those who want to design a web site.
Service pack 3 for XP may cause problems for some people.
See show notes for May 19 2008 for links.
July 28 2008
One can find tech news at theregister.com.
To opt out of telemarketing phone and fax calls at www.donotcall.gov.
One originally had to reregister every 5 years but that may be longer now.
A similar service for mail is dmachoice.orgv.
It's now possible to transfer your phone number from AT&T or other carriers to such VOIP accounts as.
vonage.com
lingo.com
broadvoice.com
Virtual fax services make your incoming fax available as a pdf file.
myfax.com
efax.com
If you try to get your credit reports from freecreditreport.com you may have to pay.
www.annualcreditreport.com is truly free.
If you stagger your requests 4 months apart you'll be able to get your free credit reports from each of the 3 credit companies in the shortest time.
External sound cards are available that use the USB port and they work for PC's & Macs.
Search for "usb sound" at ebay.com.
They usually provide headphone & mic ports.
Carnegie Mellon computer science prof Randy Pausch, who died recently from cancer, has a popular viral video; www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
A caller asks for a recommendation of a laptop.
An option is to find a refurbished Mac at apple and then get apple care extended warranty from a 3rd party like ebay.com.
One does not have to have landline phone number from AT&T to get DSL from them.
Magicjack.com, another VOIP hardware unit, is an alternative to a landline.
A caller wants to share Quickbooks data with a coworker over the internet.
webx.com is one recommendation.
July 14 2008
KVMR's Birth Cries were around 1PM July 14 1978 which we mean to commemorate!!!!
It;'s Also Bastille DAy commemorating the start of the French Revoltion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day
We sprang an Interview with Jemma Abbott, a founder and first voice on the air of KVMR after 'Dead Air'- Archive to Follow
Some Background about early Tech at KVMR– Analog!
Soem Info abotu the state of Technology on July 14 1978 and wehre various of us were…..
VOIP Virtualised Phone Number- CAN move ATT numbers up here now.. see http://Www.BraodVoice.Com and lingo.con and of course vonage.com for More Infornation: Basically it's Dial Toen generated by a call router for a virtual exchange over the Itnerent. But your house phones are all the same… Ket's Talk!
Disability Use of Windows XP: Thanks to Andrea for the Research: If attempting to tune and scale Fonts under XP for vision impairment, (Yep– Me!) infinite font & Screen Scaling is simply NOT offered under my preferred Classic mode, one needs XP mode, More on the Show!
Thsi show is dedicated to my father (Paul) who died this day 1995. Also:
THANKS to Michael Stone and many others who are saving our real lives every day
You Know Why! and my tohughts to Susan Kline.
http://www.hdrsoft.com/ Photomatix software Increase the dynamic range of your photograph. Your camera and retina have rather poor 'dynamic range' of lighting extremes they can cope with. Your brain takes care of your eyes, Photomatix can take care of your photos actually be blending bracketed shots into remarkable hybrids. Superreal or fake? you decide! (MAC or PC, PC requires free Net Framework 1.1)
End. Thank You!
June 30 2008
Paul Still out Of Country Avoiding Smoke : ) * THANKS to guest co host Mikail Graham of The Other Side & Much More for Sitting In
The same week Bill Gates officially steps down as head of Microsoft, XP is finally pulled from Shelves. The End of an Era?
FireFox version 3 release official http://www.mozilla.com I (Paul) Tried it. Nice!
MAC issue for Mikail to get old OS 9.1 data onto new Powemac: Use External FireWire drive. TArget Mode by either machine was Not Happy!
Caller spoke of an HP All in One printer 'vanishing'. I (Paul) am aware of Conflicts of HP software with IE7. 1) Try: Programs… HP .. Hp Software update. Or, 2) Visit http://support.hp.com and chose "Drivers & Downloads" then look for your Printer and get all-new Software…
AVG 8 NOT without Problems: I suggest turning OFF or Disabling the AVG Add On within FireFox that causes Link Checking when using things like Google as it adds traffic, slows things down and is not neccesarily that helpful given the anti phishing tools already existing within FireFox AND your Due Dilegence– OF COURSE : ). Tools.. AddOns.. Unistall (OR, Disable) then Restart FireFox. AVG is reather well deployed, so Webmasters need to skip the logging of the scans performed on the Links this performs…
END. Thank You One And All.
June 16 2008
(Guest host: Mikail Graham- Thanks!)
iLiberty+ Mac or PC – http://tinyurl.com/4nrl7u
The iPhone Project PC & MAC – http://tinyurl.com/3oh4jh
Hack the iphone/itouch blog – http://tinyurl.com/4czy2f
iPod Touch Fans site – http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/
– 3G-capable. 2.8 times faster than EDGE (AT&T 2G network)
– Microsoft Exchange AcctiveSync
– GPS built-in
– Better battery life – 300 hours of standby, Talk-time 10 hours (as opposed to 5) on 2G networks, 5 hours of 3G talk-time (competition is 3 hour 3G talk time), 5 to 6 hours of high-speed browsing, 7 hours of video, 24 hours of audio.
– flush headphone jack
– MobileMe replaces .Mac
– App Store – 71% of the apps in the App Store are to be free!
Pricing and Availability
The iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in 22 countries for $199 for 8 GB and $299 for 16 GB. The 16 GB model also comes in white.
iPhone basic plan:
$199.00 – 8gb 3G iPhone basic cost
$30 – 3G data plan (no SMS?) – $45 for business users!
$69.95 – per month w/o taxes and other charges
$1678.80 – 24 month contract fees
approximate costs w/taxes and charges
$1877.80 – total for 2 years
and last for now
$10 – SMS message plan is extra
DRAWBACKS
no voice only plan which would allow wifi to be used instead of 2/3G data plan
New 3G iphones must be activated within 30 days or they will penalized with a yet to be made public fee according AT&T and Apple.
3G data coverage info
http://tinyurl.com/69ycow
The service runs $99/yr, with new users getting a free 60 day trial. MobileMe lets you access and manage your email, contacts, calendar, photos, and files at me.com (which still isn't quite up it seems). Push technology means when you update your contacts, calendars, or email on your iPhone, web, or Mac, the updates are automatically and immediately pushed out to all your other MobileMe devices.
http://tinyurl.com/5jfyxc
AppleInsider has a scoop on the iPhone App Store and the limitations Apple is placing on them. Each individual app will have a hard limit of 2GB, as well as a ceiling of $999 for each app. These two look like pretty reasonable limits for all but the most extreme of cases. If someone wants to charge more than $0, the lowest possible price is $0.99. There are other details, such as how an App looks, how they're rated inside the store, and region control, but Apple's legal team had AppleInsider take those images down—always a sign that there was some good stuff there. [AppleInsider]
http://tinyurl.com/5e78oq